go have died from the corona virus in iran where the death toll nears 2000 about half of all government employees are staying at home in a bid to contain the spread the number of infections is nearing 25000 and the health ministry says the number of cases is likely to rise because of testing and screening of hansen's. and the u.n. special envoy for syria has called for an immediate nationwide cease fire across the country in a bid to stop the virus from spreading gare pederson also appealed for president releases as well as access for medical workers to detention facilities the syrian government has also imposed curfews and public transports after the war torn country confirmed its 1st case of coronavirus. europe today with the headlines on al-jazeera up next it's the stream on the team is looking at how to protect health care workers on the coronavirus front line.

i have one i'm femi oke a and you are in the stream health care workers around the well it's back in the bronx at the corona virus outbreak but many are not getting the support they need you one of them with us on i live chats or at stream on twitter. take a look at some of the social media pleas the hashtags covert 19 health care heroes flatten the curve these are from health care workers from around the world and they have been asking asked. to appreciate their work as they stand on the front lines

of the coronavirus fight get me p.p.a. that's personal protective equipment that in the curve i said it worked for you please stay at home for us in countries hard hit by covert 19 doctors nurses and other medical staff have been among the most likely to become infected with a quite a virus and they are constantly in contact with infected patients but often lack protective equipment and they're exhausted after working long shifts with few breaks and critical care nurse of just sport you know i was just wanted to get some stuff in for the next. snow snow branch to burn. just i'm supposed to stay healthy i. announced people who just strictly because santa lives. you just don't. people like me are going to really look you know see you

when you're yellow is. that was dawn bell brought a british critical care nurse after 48 hour shift so how are healthcare workers around the world handling the krona virus crisis joining us to discuss this is that the un tony torres is the senior consultant of the respect tree and intensive care unit at the university of bos alona in spain or so with us stocked in iran. a pediatrician at silver de pitts silverdale p.t. pediatrics in washington state a coronavirus hot spot and finally we have dr made its way an emergency room practitioner and journalist based in london i especially ask the doctors how are you doing that in london on lockdown. given the circumstances i'm. trying to get through the details. but there are same the same where on

lockdown now the governor gave a shout in order for the next 2 weeks so we're just trying to help the people we can sure that i'm tony in barcelona police are on the streets making sure people are congregating how we use doing our movie i'm doing well but if you do a family get the story let's say because you know it's been heard. i love. and a lot of you should be as you so dr no rather this is a very stressful time for everybody pretty much around the world but when you are literally treating or not knowing if your patients may well be infective what is that like. it's something i've never experienced before in 20 years of working and literally on the front lines seeing sick patients every day after in my clinic has been compared to kind of an a light e.r. for children we do almost everything except trauma here so i just saw within the

last hour a patient who could be infected and i saw them in their car unfold. that i'd done the disinfected to recycle which is something we've never had to do before normally we take off the p.p.a. throw it in the garbage and and move on but i'm literally rotating 4 masks over 4 days using the same mask in-between and trying to sterilize in the best mobility in between and again this is for the safety of patients and safety of the health care workers and it's unprecedented times i need say p.p.a. in that and we know now now because. it's a social media that's personal protective equipment. that i can see some of the lines on and you'll have to lean forward and tell us what those lines are see. this is like a break from my my shift. just come out of. recess so this is like the safety goes after and then there's a mosque as well but this is the the goggles that we actually have to wear just to

protect us doesn't people think it's just something that you can inhale but it can go through for example from your eyes and so that it's just it's one of those diseases that you can't see but you know it's that this is very dangerous yet the time to go ahead you know that did you you don't know that the patients are all of the doctor terry had to but not because he's very phylum at the beginning to him what the pattern in your inbox alone is that when we give those we knew we were taking all the precautions and of course now we are picking on the russians but a lot of time to. come from 4 weeks ago. well it's a really no damage was done before we could even realize what was happening it feels like corona virus is like a trojan horse we've woken up to a whole new world and this virus has snuck in overnight and is attacking everywhere that we can see it doesn't matter what we're going to say to have even now even

though the news is come out about their own virus the discussions up and about why am i still seems traffic on the streets why does it take me so long to get to why people still walk around as normal a normal day we're supposed to be on lockdown it's just the mass of people that need to take it start taking it seriously i completely agree i thought they were in the same boat but i'm glad let me say something about it we asked appearing catalonia obviously 10 days ago to gloat but only the company but only on the front yard and all the people who come and that the government. had deep deep under that because we depend on the federal government and i think he named united kingdom you'll be or something like that because the message of body john one were really very strange. he said but he

said he was not going to quote anything now exploding and these aren't really very bad but he did it does very well opinion these variable a duration that's on it as. that guy had on that and that. bus reached the stage where basically it's already spread so far so closing things down now isn't going to make that much of a difference considering the fact that almost everyone i see now is corona positive until proven otherwise so we just assume that everyone has the disease and some of these x. rays that i'm seeing maybe 2 weeks ago i would have said this is a severe infection now it's almost like a mobile phone or that it's just like the fact that the patient yeah that is telling this is that. it's a very scary thing for us that is i know something oxygen is not a citizen yeah. there was an accident numbers were a few years few weeks ago i would have really thought that this patient was sick and needed to big immediately when i might actually let's hold off so when i say

chad you are going to go to run to lay the patient yeah ok you're right but but the mt what happened in china we did learn from that order we did not expect the people from time to go and what was happening in china was terrible and horrible and they're going to have. what kind of back to the photo doesn't rank ahead toys going to say well i was good i'm agreeing with both doctors i mean i think we were caught unaware we should have probably paid attention more or understood more of what was going on in china and again so i'm in seattle near the epicenter of the nursing home outbreak and it's sort of spread i think in the community and we lost patience in hospitals before we even knew it was on our shores and so i do have to say our governor we're handling it state to state and i agree with dr anthony that consistency would have been key here in the states washington state really locked down pretty early we didn't have

a shot in order but we shut down the schools 2 weeks ago some of us really pushed hard to make make sure that happened and the governor really has just. for i had to be as ahead of the game as you can and i feel like that's why washington state is a little bit has slowed the spread more than new york which is new york starting to feel like they're overwhelmed what i am noticing about where you're taking this conversation is that you are talking about the populations you're talking about your countries you're not talking about yourself but every single day every month just taking a break from the shift every moment you could possibly get infected how do you deal with this with your family and i just thought well as an. first i remember the 1st time i went to see a possible grown patient and at the time it was nerve racking but now it's almost like it's a given that everyone you see must coronas so you take the necessary precautions but you almost forget that you're wearing it will and you're out there to try to do your best you're the kind of feels like not to compare it to times of war but for

us because this is an invisible thing it feels that we are being thrown into the trenches and to me in terms of the family thing like i've now got to move our lives in a hotel just because i'm so high risk like anything i've touched no matter how much i wash wash myself or you don't know if you got rid of everything completely and i don't want to put my like some of your friends at risk. yet beyond the only contact that i have is my wife i'm not seeing my kids for are a couple of weeks and my mother. who is 90 do. what about 3 weeks i guess one hair. 3 banks but in a. and i have 4 little children my husband and i work together he runs my office so i think we're doing the best we can to wash our selves before we go home change our clothes the moment we get home take them off and put them in the laundry right away. i it is

a likely reality my children are going to get this and i am not sure either of us can we can't both move out of our home so yeah we've we've prepped our kids a problem a month ago and said look you are a low risk group you are likely to get this and we're going to do the best we can to avoid it my mom is $76.00 and she is she also works in my office and she's coming in the middle of the early morning when no one's here she's in a back office. and she's going home early and then staying in her house and my kids haven't seen her since this began about a couple of weeks ago that was just when i left out the shop basically because of all this and the fact that like for example i thought the hotel like what we have to realize is that should weep because we're high risk of catching the virus should retouch the virus and get infected and become unwell with it nobody will be able to visit us family members on the law to come into the hospital to come visit us and that is something that's very chilling and some of the most difficult conversations

i have even with patients is when i'm telling them that their prognosis is quite sad and that many of us away from from the disease is that they want to see their loved ones but it's not something that's going to be possible so i'm going to go to you know you because your conversation d'antoni if i may just for a moment that i want people who are watching you on t.v. to be at a communicate with us well so elizabeth rainey says on you chip watching or if you talk to us right now how can we get clean equipment like mosse to you what factories can we use and how do we make sure the virus doesn't get on the box is used to ship them very practical question doctor there and i've been trolling your twitter feed so i know what one amazing person did. so i'm going to show you that picture which is which is basically something you tell the story and then i'll get to the faking well i you know the newspaper gets delivered to my doorstep and i opened my door and there were 2 boxes of masks sitting on my doorstep and at the time i didn't know who left them most people in this town i was born and raised

here i practice in the town i grew up in so they know where i live yeah and i didn't know who sent them i now know who did they want to remain anonymous but have i'm so grateful i'm still using those same astore in there and sure it's like a fairy godmother or fairy cult father just drop them on your doorstep amazes and you know and you know the donations have continued to come in and now i am starting to figure out ways to get them to other doctors there are retired dentists that today have had 2 or 3 retired dentist bring in masks gloves whatever they have in storage where they had left over from when they retired people are really stepping up in this community getting them to us and i mean we're just going to do the best we can to make sure that both the workers and the staff in my clinic the hospitals and the frontline workers in the ers and in the ice use have what they need hospitals are assigning one mask a day they're rotating them they're they're putting their names on them i mean we're we're really we need factories to step up especially united states i assuming

it's in spain in the u.k. as well but we need factories to search churning out some protective equipment because we're in this we're going to be in this for a couple of months at least a dozen tony was a life wondering bus and i don't have. what we did with the couple of actions myself but generally i had to cheney's fellow from working in research with me and they have a whole lot of contact in china and with the chinese population here in barcelona and when we could collect a lot of the mask that we gave to the hospital and the 2nd action is that we collect all the equipment from the research animal lots a lot of then work in the with the mechanic of mental is designing most thought we gave all these equipment to the hospital and the 3rd action i think is important than. one. little onion 50 cent is

making mechanical delays source and then they expect to have that he handed it at the end of this week. as extraordinary it's amazing what you can do when you when you try to time i go head to head you know you sort of so i think it's about time the the private healthcare industry in the u.k. steps up we've got a lot private schools around the u.k. but there's the problem of what summer there was the public images. because they made a lot of money for health care but as you know this person said with us right doctors i want to know i want you to know how appreciated you are so as people are watching the show on twitter right now you're getting salutations from around the world ahmed says this is the period we need to come together to fight this deadly virus we need to give our doctors maximum support to tackle the corona virus and then we have from ethiopia covert 19 updates been strong doctors pretty shape here or more here from have our doctors around the world you are our heroes we ethiopians away

if you inshallah we will of come so that's god willing we will overcome i want to go to boston massachusetts which is not at breaking point quite yet but this is dr josie she is anticipating breaking point as of a look my family and the medicine residents and i go to work every day with this feeling of impending sense of june because we know that although boston hasn't yet like many other places like new york. we know it's only a matter of time before our system starts getting overwhelmed by the amount of critically ill patients who want to kurta me and you can start and then we're go around the rest of the doctors is that we didn't seem prepared as a world for a global pandemic we didn't seem to be ready may have a couple of dry runs almost and some scarce but how come we're not ready oh that's

a great question and i. i i think probably i don't this is just well i just think the repeatedly that this disease spreads and the fact that people can be asymptomatic meaning with no symptoms feeling well and that they can spread it to other people again no one wants to do that that's one of my greatest fears but again it's this asymptomatic spread that i think has changed this in the fact that it's just so it's spreading so quickly that we're overwhelming our system and i think in a way we haven't seen for at least the united states since the 1900 flu pandemic i mean that's the closest thing to me a mere suppose the robotic plague while worse is still you know spread rapidly yeah so again we just our lifetime we've never seen anything quite like this that's when tony go ahead i'm going to say i did a problem we didn't expect that before the spread of this bottle and so many patients young and old are indeed as you mechanical a bit like that with

a year you're really going to expect that it is looking at the books and reading if it looks like that mary. i'm sure all the book called the spanish influenza yeah. if it be going to start in spring really so talk to us this is what we asked our own like community we asked them this on twitter is this something you want to say to the doctors nurses and the health care workers around the world fighting the krona virus and discreet down here we got this message this is for you doctors and 4 of her doctors and health care workers and medical professionals around the world this is a message from one of after us to all the doctors nurses well the medical practitioners we want to thank you and i want to put in to see that you guys are good reviews who don't really necessarily have to record. thank you no other that

the fighting a common enemy who has no heart or remorse you're ok i've been so just on the ground so proud of you and i'm really grateful everyone stay at home because so there's that that gratitude but the time again just wondered what else can we do as the public because there's so many countries on lockdown right now how can we help get what they need well. we need the good people and they form the main message and rebuild that man's right which is really one. i completely agree i think the the thing that everyone can do and again you don't need to be. there's nothing special about that other than stay home if you need to go to the grocery store you need to go to the pharmacy send one person you know one person from your family try as much as you can to alter your life because it's going to save health care workers lives and it's going to save

the lives of elderly and those who are affected by this virus and if we can slow the number of people that need ventilators and need extra respiratory support then you can allow health care workers to take care of those who are coming in without having to make decisions like italy is having to make right now. i have to say you know i think we just also need to bust the myth that a lot of young people think that they're invincible they say they go to the gym regularly. you know under the age of 40 i'm not there wolf and i have to that they're not going to get the disease i'm not going to be affected by it but that's not the case i'm seeing people younger than 30 who a frequent goes to the gym the now needing to be chewed unventilated i'm on them support so this message that they think that they can go on some enjoy their lives as normal is not true that they are going to be affected and the thing is we're getting so packed with patients now people being on ventilators us anybody was good to get infected now and in 2 weeks time they fall sick there's going to be no

ventilates is left as a new that's the thing that we people need to realize that it's getting so busy just stay at home you're not invincible it can happen to you doesn't it around let me give this question how can that help desk go ahead of time tony go ahead. not lead to a good rb but don't think that we need that induce that is a good sign and many mechanical delay thought like we are doing here and got blown you're using the 3 dimensional systems acknowledge you had let me go to you chip and i'm going to ask you to pick up on this question here and it is really concerning and people watching isn't very stressed as they decide to for our new chief we have read a rule i let sacramento california i that's where i live i'm a resident there i'm quite worried a case tell keeps rising and then tripling gotten around. well i think again what i can say is it's going to keep going and i think i think we need to

prepare ourselves for that reality we were caught unaware now we need to hunker down and we really need to take this seriously and that point about young people thinking they're invincible is so so important for so many of the flu you know influenza h one n one various things that we've seen even the last 2030 years it generally has either focused on the very young or the very old this is really in a terrifying situation where it's picking coronaviruses picking victims at random so really we do know the sickest patients are 20 and above to obviously 80 plus but the point is you could be healthy you could be fit you could have no medical problems you can still end up on a ventilator for weeks so i think we really need that message out to the public that this is going to keep rising if we do not make important changes and stay home and we're seeing that in new york i think the it's the number of cases is exponentially climbing as and the deaths are increasing as well whereas washington

while the deaths are still increasing we are kind of steady state or slowing a little bit. and again we shut everything down a couple of weeks ago and now we have a shot in order and i hope people are taking it seriously that's the number one most important way to fight this invisible enemy. just one would describe how you're feeling right now without one. because overwhelmed. doesn't describe how you feeling right now i would say oh i caution overwhelmed is what was in my brain and now i think that it's the same it's this nasa feeling of like trying to get a drink of water out of fire hose. but. if you could describe yeah you're feeding right now in a single word what with that being. it overwhelms the real world

yeah but. very willing to. you know that that fight is what i've seen on social media with medical professionals taking to social media you have the best house you have energy and you have a purpose behind your post i'm just looking at some of the medical professionals around the world who are showing off their battle scars which of the mosque if they have them if they are fortunate to have them that they have put very tightly on their face so they can actually go to work and do their job i can't think of a better place to leave our conversation there with the health care professionals around the world and the public saluting them thanks for watching scene x. .

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